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After the action-packed ending of ACOWAR, this book felt really slow. It was short and cozy though, all taking place around the Winter Solstice. I loved that we got to have chapters from other characters’ points of view…but it drove me nuts that Feyre/Rhys’s chapters were written in first person and everyone else was third person 😡
There were moments I really enjoyed (like the snowball fight) and there were parts that felt repetitive (so much shopping for gifts!). I am curious about Nesta though, so her (very small) storyline made me excited for the next book!
There were moments I really enjoyed (like the snowball fight) and there were parts that felt repetitive (so much shopping for gifts!). I am curious about Nesta though, so her (very small) storyline made me excited for the next book!
I am typically a happily ever after kind of girl, and this book is not that. I could not put it down anyway. The blurb on the back spells it all out…Elsie and Ben are madly in love and get married, then he dies nine days later. All of this happens in the first seven pages 😳
The character development in this story is incredible! It’s written in dual timelines, so you have Elsie and Ben’s love story interwoven with Elsie’s grief journey. Add onto that, Ben’s mother, Susan, didn’t know about Elsie at all! I really enjoyed watching the relationship between Elsie and Susan develop, while they were both dealing with grief in their own ways and together. I absolutely recommend this book if you are looking for a story of deep love, loss, grief, and hope.
The character development in this story is incredible! It’s written in dual timelines, so you have Elsie and Ben’s love story interwoven with Elsie’s grief journey. Add onto that, Ben’s mother, Susan, didn’t know about Elsie at all! I really enjoyed watching the relationship between Elsie and Susan develop, while they were both dealing with grief in their own ways and together. I absolutely recommend this book if you are looking for a story of deep love, loss, grief, and hope.
I always love the set-up of Emily Henry’s books. In this one, Daphne’s engagement goes up in flames and she ends up rooming with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancé’s ex. You’ve got forced proximity and accidental fake dating!
Daphne is a librarian and book lover. She’s also a “we-girl” as in “We love that restaurant. We always vacation there. We don’t really like scary movies.” She hasn’t ever lived her truth and decided what she actually likes. Miles is a laid-back, tattooed, crocs-wearing guy who is incredibly kind and thoughtful. Both characters have family trauma that colors their current relationships. It makes them feel so real and raw. I enjoyed following their personal growth journeys and seeing how they evolved.
This book is full of emotions and will make you laugh and cry. The side characters were all so well developed and I cared so deeply about their stories. I especially loved getting to meet Miles’ sister—I’d love a book with her as the FMC! I highly recommend Funny Story, especially if you have enjoyed Emily Henry’s other books.
Daphne is a librarian and book lover. She’s also a “we-girl” as in “We love that restaurant. We always vacation there. We don’t really like scary movies.” She hasn’t ever lived her truth and decided what she actually likes. Miles is a laid-back, tattooed, crocs-wearing guy who is incredibly kind and thoughtful. Both characters have family trauma that colors their current relationships. It makes them feel so real and raw. I enjoyed following their personal growth journeys and seeing how they evolved.
This book is full of emotions and will make you laugh and cry. The side characters were all so well developed and I cared so deeply about their stories. I especially loved getting to meet Miles’ sister—I’d love a book with her as the FMC! I highly recommend Funny Story, especially if you have enjoyed Emily Henry’s other books.
A sapphic road trip rom-com that hits so many tropes, while also exploring deeper themes. Logan and Rosemary (childhood best friends turned rivals) agree to take their dying mentor on a cross-country “death trip” to Maine, with a few detours along the way. Throughout the trip, they begin to acknowledge the repressed feelings they have for each other. The women are complete opposites in many ways, and each struggles with insecurities and regret about how their relationship played out in the past.
Joe (the dying mentor) plays an incredible supportive role in allowing each woman to challenge their typical patterns in life and love. I absolutely loved him as a character and the wisdom he shared. This book also has great ADHD representation, with both Logan and Rosemary having different manifestations. The whole story was a beautiful mix of humor, emotion, and love. I laughed and I cried, and I highly recommend it!
Joe (the dying mentor) plays an incredible supportive role in allowing each woman to challenge their typical patterns in life and love. I absolutely loved him as a character and the wisdom he shared. This book also has great ADHD representation, with both Logan and Rosemary having different manifestations. The whole story was a beautiful mix of humor, emotion, and love. I laughed and I cried, and I highly recommend it!
The synopsis describes this book as The Notebook meets Sweet Home Alabama, along with Noah Kahan nods. It turned out to be so much more! This book captured my whole heart. It was a raw and heartbreakingly beautiful second-chance romance. Riggins and Stella were truly honest representations of mental health struggles and addiction. This is a story about regrets, grief, and redemption.
Riggins and Stella were childhood best friends who wrote songs together. He left on tour with his band, and she joined them later on to continue writing songs. Riggins fell into the stereotypical rockstar lifestyle and leaned into the drinking and partying, ruining his relationship with Stella. The story is told in dual POV, with dual timelines, so you learn the past as you’re seeing Riggins trying to win Stella back. I loved watching the characters explore what it means to trust after trust gets broken. I devoured this book and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a thoughtful, real friends-to-lovers or second chance romance read!
Thank you to Valentine PR and Morgan Elizabeth for a copy of this eARC!
Riggins and Stella were childhood best friends who wrote songs together. He left on tour with his band, and she joined them later on to continue writing songs. Riggins fell into the stereotypical rockstar lifestyle and leaned into the drinking and partying, ruining his relationship with Stella. The story is told in dual POV, with dual timelines, so you learn the past as you’re seeing Riggins trying to win Stella back. I loved watching the characters explore what it means to trust after trust gets broken. I devoured this book and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a thoughtful, real friends-to-lovers or second chance romance read!
Thank you to Valentine PR and Morgan Elizabeth for a copy of this eARC!
As someone who never attended summer camp, this book was everything that I imagined camp to be. Silly antics with friends, a camp crush, team competitions, and deeper personal growth.
Clara has missed out on her friend group’s annual trip to their old summer camp for a few years. She is burnt out at work, but has prioritized her work over her friendships for a long time. While at camp this time, she compares her reality to what her teenage self had hoped life would be. Romance is the main plot line, but One Last Summer also explores the evolution of friendships into adulthood.
The romance between Clara and Mack felt fun and easy. I loved the banter and the slow-but-steady progression of their relationship. I do wish that we had gotten some chapters in Mack’s POV to see inside his head and round him out as a character. I’d characterize their romance as friends-to-lovers with a hint of second-chance romance, and it had me rooting for them in the best possible way.
This was a great summer book that will transport you back to summer camp. Thank you Netgalley, Forever (Grand Central Publishing), and Kate Spencer for the chance to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Clara has missed out on her friend group’s annual trip to their old summer camp for a few years. She is burnt out at work, but has prioritized her work over her friendships for a long time. While at camp this time, she compares her reality to what her teenage self had hoped life would be. Romance is the main plot line, but One Last Summer also explores the evolution of friendships into adulthood.
The romance between Clara and Mack felt fun and easy. I loved the banter and the slow-but-steady progression of their relationship. I do wish that we had gotten some chapters in Mack’s POV to see inside his head and round him out as a character. I’d characterize their romance as friends-to-lovers with a hint of second-chance romance, and it had me rooting for them in the best possible way.
This was a great summer book that will transport you back to summer camp. Thank you Netgalley, Forever (Grand Central Publishing), and Kate Spencer for the chance to read this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book was a great mix of women’s fiction and romance. The characters are older (39 year old FMC and 40 year old MMC). Nora is a romance movie writer (think Hallmark Channel) and Leo is the actor hired to play the main character in her movie. Nora is a divorced mom with two elementary-aged kids who really went through it with her ex-husband. So many books I read are about college students, so it was a nice change of pace to read about more mature characters who have experienced life.
Nora and Leo fall for each other really quickly, and their romance was easy and sweet. I wish we had gotten to see a little more of how they fell in love. It’s a short book, so it didn’t spend a ton of time on the “falling” part and moved quickly to “in love”. However, the book did not follow the typical romance book structure, and I wasn’t sure how it was going to end. I was hooked the whole time!
Nora and Leo fall for each other really quickly, and their romance was easy and sweet. I wish we had gotten to see a little more of how they fell in love. It’s a short book, so it didn’t spend a ton of time on the “falling” part and moved quickly to “in love”. However, the book did not follow the typical romance book structure, and I wasn’t sure how it was going to end. I was hooked the whole time!
This book is everywhere right now, and for good reason! I will read anything that Abby Jimenez writes. Talk about a romance with a plot! This book deals with the reality of mental health struggles, and the effects they can have on family members. Emma’s toxic relationship with her mother affects every aspect of her life, especially relationships (note: check content warnings before reading). The portrayal of Emma and her trauma responses was perfect—“feeling small”, shutting down, and isolating herself. I loved her “sister”/bestie relationship with Maddy, and how Maddy knew exactly how to support Emma. She always told Emma the truth, even when it was hard and painful.
AND THE LOVE STORY! Two people who are “good luck charms” for others to find their soul mates. Anyone who dates Emma or Justin meets “the one” right after. So Emma and Justin decide to date each other so that when they break up, they will each meet their soul mates. But it’s a romance book, so of course they start to fall for each other. I adored them together, and how Justin never wavered in his love for Emma, even when she was scared and pushed him away. The laugh-out-loud and swoon-worthy moments expertly balanced the emotion and trauma. PERFECTION!!!
This is an interconnected stand-alone in the same book universe as Part of Your World and Yours Truly. It was so fun seeing characters from those books pop up so naturally!! I highly recommend all three books!
AND THE LOVE STORY! Two people who are “good luck charms” for others to find their soul mates. Anyone who dates Emma or Justin meets “the one” right after. So Emma and Justin decide to date each other so that when they break up, they will each meet their soul mates. But it’s a romance book, so of course they start to fall for each other. I adored them together, and how Justin never wavered in his love for Emma, even when she was scared and pushed him away. The laugh-out-loud and swoon-worthy moments expertly balanced the emotion and trauma. PERFECTION!!!
This is an interconnected stand-alone in the same book universe as Part of Your World and Yours Truly. It was so fun seeing characters from those books pop up so naturally!! I highly recommend all three books!
“Isn’t it lucky when we’re drawn to people who can teach us things we need to learn?”
I loved this book so much! A FMC who won’t let anyone help her meets a MMC who is a compulsive helper, and she actually does need his help because she has face-blindness following brain surgery.
The first third of the book really focuses on Sadie’s medical things, as well as her relationships with her best friend and her therapist. I love when a great romance story also has other plot! After her diagnosis of acquired apperceptive prosopagnosia (face blindness), Sadie can’t recognize faces so she can’t tell if she has met someone before. She follows the advice to treat everyone like “there are no strangers”. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we all used that trick!?
Sadie ends up meeting and falling for two men—her dog’s veterinarian and her neighbor. I was worried it might be a love triangle (not my favorite trope), but she makes a choice pretty quickly. There is quite a bit of misunderstanding, and the third act breakup GUTTED me. I loved these two characters together and was devastated when it happened. But of course there is a HEA! I adored this book and highly recommend!
I loved this book so much! A FMC who won’t let anyone help her meets a MMC who is a compulsive helper, and she actually does need his help because she has face-blindness following brain surgery.
The first third of the book really focuses on Sadie’s medical things, as well as her relationships with her best friend and her therapist. I love when a great romance story also has other plot! After her diagnosis of acquired apperceptive prosopagnosia (face blindness), Sadie can’t recognize faces so she can’t tell if she has met someone before. She follows the advice to treat everyone like “there are no strangers”. Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we all used that trick!?
Sadie ends up meeting and falling for two men—her dog’s veterinarian and her neighbor. I was worried it might be a love triangle (not my favorite trope), but she makes a choice pretty quickly. There is quite a bit of misunderstanding, and the third act breakup GUTTED me. I loved these two characters together and was devastated when it happened. But of course there is a HEA! I adored this book and highly recommend!
This has everything I want in a rom com!! It can be read as a standalone, but takes place in the same universe as The Cheat Sheet (which was also amazing). I adored both of the main characters, and loved the spotlight on some characters we met before. It is a second-chance romance, and all of the miscommunication happened when the characters were in college, and the characters are both still scarred from the breakup. It was all totally believable and the miscommunication storyline completely fit. I loved the goofy, quick-witted FMC and found myself laughing out loud at her antics. The romance was swoony and the HEA was perfect. I hope there are more stories to come in this universe! 5 stars!